This Day In European History
5th October
Events1497: English pretender Perkin Warbeck (King Richard IV to supporters) is captured.
1600: King Henry IV of France marries Maria de Medici; they produced the Bourbon dynasty of monarchs that ruled in Florence, France, Naples, Parma, Sicily and Spain.
1793: Christianity is abolished in France.
1795: Royalist rebels marching against the National Convention in Paris are scattered by a previously obscure French commander: Napoleon Bonaparte.
1910: Portugal is declared a republic.
1936: The Jarrow March begins, a protest by unemployed workers travelling to London.
1952: The rationing of tea, introduced in Britain during World War 2, finally ends.
Births
1641: Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart, French mistress.
1728: Charles Genevieve d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy.
1936: Václav Havel, Czech playwright and politician.
Deaths
1285: King Philip III, the Bold, of France.
1524: Joachim Patinir, Dutch painter.
1763: King Augustus III of Poland.
1860: Alexey Khomyakov, Russian poet.
1880: Jacques Offenbach, French composer.
